1954-1970: CIA and the Muslim Brotherhood Ally to Oppose Egyptian President Nasser In 1954, Egyptian President Gamal Abddul Nasser’s nationalist policies in Egypt come to be viewed as completely unacceptable by Britain and the US. ...
At a secret black site in the years after the end of WWII, CIA and US intelligence operatives tested LSD and other interrogation techniques on captured Soviet spies—all with the help of former Nazi doctors. ...
Mark Dugain believes the American military blasted the missing jetliner out of the sky amid fears it had been hijacked remotely and could be used in a 9/11-style terror attack Missing Flight MH370 was ‘hacked ...
“… Merkel was sponsoring Klitschko’s Maidan party through Adenauer Foundation before. Today, she is an ardent supporter of sanctions against Russia. It brings up an idea that the Americans will orchestrate World War III through ...
Monthly Updates on the Covert War January 2014 Update Bureau of Investigative Journalism All actions 2002 – January 31 2014* Confirmed US drone strikes: 59-69 Total reported killed: 287-423 Civilians reported killed: 24-71 Children reported killed: ...
Star Jeremy Renner and producer Scott Stuber talk about Kill the Messenger, their film about Gary Webb, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter. Webb uncovered a CIA plot in the 1980s that funneled cocaine into the ...
“… The CIA has apparently resurrected a policy that it followed against Europeans during the post-WW II era when the US spy agency would carry out attacks in European states and blame them on communist ...
A homemade explosive Tuesday blew up outside the Colorado Springs, Colorado, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in what the FBI has called a deliberate incident, reports the Los Angeles ...
The US Central Intelligence Agency’s use of torture was reported widely on front pages around the world on Wednesday. A milestone report by the Senate intelligence committee revealed that the use of torture in secret ...
For Republicans, hiring lobbyists to handle the day-to-day goings on of Congress seems to have become a normal occurrence these days, so Academi lobbyist Jeff Shockey being named Staff Director of the House Intelligence ...
Also see: “Papers reveal Nixon plan for North Korea nuclear strike” (The Guardian) One news item from this last year really stood out to me. It was a furtheranRicce of an article I read in ...
For a second time in three years, an independent inquiry cast doubt Friday on the FBI’s assertion that genetic testing had cinched its conclusion that a now-dead Army bioweapons researcher mailed anthrax-laced letters that killed ...
FRANCIS ELLIOTT AND MICHAEL SAVAGE THE TIMES, DECEMBER 18, 2014 DRAFTS of the official inquiry into the Iraq war have sent shockwaves through the British bureaucracy, with key players fighting to tone down or even delete ...
” … Torture is a terrorist act. … Torture isn’t about secretly collecting information. It never has been. Torture only works when it isn’t secret. …” Guess Who Else Tortured People Like the CIA Did — Soviets and ...
Those behind a “criminal conspiracy” that led to the torture of detainees by America’s CIA, which falsely held up foiled UK terror plots as proof that the brutal interrogations had saved lives, must be held ...
The Western media has embarked on a new wave of disinformation. After having formally accused Libya for the 1988 Lockerbie bombings, Britain’s tabloids, more than 25 years later, are now pointing their finger at Iran. ...
John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer sentenced to two and a half years in prison for leaking the name of a secret agent in charge of the CIA’s Bush-era torture program, has written a letter detailing his ...
“… Carter is very much entangled in the shady world of the military-industrial complex. Between stints in government, he has made significant sums of cash consulting for defense contractors, and has made money advising Goldman Sachs and Raytheon. ...
The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon OCTOBER 19, 2014 THE VOTERS WHO put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to ...
The shocking disappearance of 43 student teachers lifted the lid on the open secret of Mexico’s many others who’ve disappeared amid drug-fuelled violence They found the first grave in a thicket of spiny huisache trees clinging to ...
“… There is a sense that the entire ideological spectrum of the political class is tainted. …” The violent disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college in Guerrero state has caused a political earthquake ...
“… As the Colombian military engaged in the killings, the United States unconditionally supported it with intelligence, covert C.I.A. action and billions of dollars in aid. …” NOV. 12, 2014 (José Miguel Vivanco is Americas director ...
Days after several former Blackwater guards were found guilty of violent crimes related to the deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians, Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade hosted Blackwater founder Erik Prince for an interview that glossed over the ...
Seymour Hersh : The US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison “‘The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking,’ the reporter told an ACLU convention last week. Hersh says there ...
By Spencer S. Hsu, Victoria St. Martin and Keith L. Alexander Washington Post, October 22, 2014 A federal jury in Washington convicted four Blackwater Worldwide guards Wednesday in the fatal shooting of 14 unarmed Iraqis, seven years after the ...
Also see: “Venezuela: Government Legislator Robert Serra Killed“: “Venezuela’s Justice Minister, Miguel Rodríguez Torres, has announced that Robert Serra, a legislator from the governing United Socialist Party (PSUV) had been found dead in his apartment ...
Data Dumped by Alex Constantine Right-wing GOP fear brokers have blamed undocumented children for the domestic outbreak of the lethal enterovirus, Fox News claims that Barack Obama wants the entire country to “suffer with less fortunate nations,” ...
“… ‘Air Force investigators blamed the LN-100 for a crash of a Predator drone carrying a Hellfire missile in the North African Republic of Djibouti.’ In that event, ‘the device recorded the drone’s altitude to ...
October 10 2014 I came of age in New York City overhearing older folks who’d lived through the crack era, ask a series of open-ended questions that began like this: “We didn’t own no planes. ...
BY NORMAN STOCKWELL On Sunday, Oct. 5, 1986, a young Sandinista soldier named José Fernando Canales Alemán sighted a Fairchild C-123K cargo plane in Nicaraguan airspace near the Costa Rican border. He fired a Russian-made ...
By Peter Dale Scott Peter Dale Scott is considered the father of “Deep Politics”— the study of hidden permanent institutions and interests whose influence on the political realm transcends the elected, appointed and career officials who come and go. ...
By Julian Hattem A Washington-based privacy organization is suing the CIA to obtain details about how it spied on Senate staffers. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain the agency ...
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – Relatives of coal miners and union leaders killed by Colombian paramilitary forces cannot sue Drummond Co. in U.S. courts for its alleged support of murders anrd war crimes, the 11th ...
“… A top manager at Blackwater … openly threatened to kill a US State Department official in 2007 if he continued to investigate Blackwater’s corrupt dealings in Iraq …” Government Repeatedly Threatening Reporter Who Exposed ...
By Rebecca Shabad U.S. commandos who tried to save Ambassador Christopher Stevens and other Americans during the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, write in a new book that the CIA station chief held up the rescue ...
